net: dsa: sja1105: fix use-after-free after calling of_find_compatible_node, or worse
It seems that of_find_compatible_node has a weird calling convention in which it calls of_node_put() on the "from" node argument, instead of leaving that up to the caller. This comes from the fact that of_find_compatible_node with a non-NULL "from" argument it only supposed to be used as the iterator function of for_each_compatible_node(). OF iterator functions call of_node_get on the next OF node and of_node_put() on the previous one. When of_find_compatible_node calls of_node_put, it actually never expects the refcount to drop to zero, because the call is done under the atomic devtree_lock context, and when the refcount drops to zero it triggers a kobject and a sysfs file deletion, which assume blocking context. So any driver call to of_find_compatible_node is probably buggy because an unexpected of_node_put() takes place. What should be done is to use the of_get_compatible_child() function. Fixes: 5a8f0974 ("net: dsa: sja1105: register the MDIO buses for 100base-T1 and 100base-TX") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210814010139.kzryimmp4rizlznt@skbuf/ Suggested-by: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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